Commons Sitting of 21 April 1980

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. WALES
      1. Economic Activity 758 words
      2. Enterprise Zones 549 words
      3. New Firms 581 words
      4. Pedestrian Crossings 199 words
      5. Welsh Language 615 words
      6. Council House Sales 570 words
      7. Mobility of Industry 425 words
      8. Job Creation 703 words
      9. West Glamorgan 540 words
      10. Council for the Principality 433 words
      11. Self-Employed Persons and Small Firms 335 words
    2. INDUSTRY
      1. Hosiery and Knitwear Industries 353 words
      2. Post Office (Statutory Monopolies) 430 words
    3. TRADE
      1. Trans-Siberian Container Service 278 words
    4. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      1. British Orchestras (Russian Tours) 616 words
    5. THE ARTS IN WALES 373 words
    6. NATIONAL HERITAGE FUND 733 words
    7. WORKS OF ART (SALES) 612 words
  4. NORTHERN IRELAND (SECURITY) 2,082 words
  5. ORDERS OF THE DAY
  6. SUPPLY 3 words
  7. NORTH-WEST ENGLAND 25,449 words
  8. YORKSHIRE 21,576 words
  9. CRIMINAL JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) [MONEY] 5,838 words
  10. OLYMPIC GAMES 4,075 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 April 1980

  1. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Numeracy and Literacy Courses (Yorkshire and Humberside Region) 85 words
    2. Sheffield 93 words
    3. Wage Settlements 116 words
    4. Heavy Weights 65 words
    5. Employment Exchanges (Manchester) 39 words
    6. Tyre Industry 48 words
    7. Short-time Working Compensation Scheme (Grimsby) 46 words
    8. North Sea Oilfields (Safety Committees) 32 words
    9. Licensed Nuclear Site Employees (Medical and Blood Examinations) 167 words
    10. Earnings-related Supplement 69 words
    11. Clegg Commission 119 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Police Forces (Ethnic Composition) 164 words
    2. Motor Cyclists (Crash Helmets) 113 words
    3. Sunday Racing 49 words
    4. Metropolitan Police (Beat Duty) 128 words
    5. Police Recruitment 161 words
    6. Departmental Manpower 127 words
    7. Badgers 124 words
    8. Personal Privacy 94 words
    9. Immigration 925 words
    10. St. Paul's Area, Bristol 607 words
    11. Scarborough (Civil Disturbance) 264 words
    12. Police Forces (Community Relations Officers) 64 words
    13. Video Cassette Recorders (Licences) 36 words
    14. Television Licence Fee (Commercial Premises) 56 words
    15. European Community (Right of Residence) 120 words
    16. Sound Broadcasting (Licence Fee) 42 words
    17. COURT PROCEDURES 211 words
  3. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Manpower 91 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Overseas Aid (Use of Charities) 121 words
    2. Zimbabwe and Zambia 139 words
    3. Cambodian Refugees 175 words
  5. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Burnham Committee 528 words
    2. Grass and Legume Breeding 119 words
    3. NATIONAL HERITAGE MEMORIAL FUND 56 words
  6. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Petrol Tax 119 words
    2. Payment of Workers 153 words
    3. Privately-Owned Housing 336 words
    4. Pension Funds 123 words
    5. Cash Limits 85 words
    6. European Court Judgment 50 words
    7. Duty Deferment Facilities 78 words
    8. European Community 58 words
    9. North Sea Oil and Gas Revenues 224 words
    10. European Community Budget (United Kingdom Contribution) 68 words
    11. Treasury Long Tap Stock 72 words
    12. Indexation 121 words
    13. Retail Price Index 45 words
    14. HENRY W. WILLIAMSON (LITERARY PAPERS) 170 words
  7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Refreshment Department 66 words
    2. LIBRARY CLOSURES (APPEALS) 32 words
    3. AREA MUSEUM COUNCILS 129 words
    4. LOCAL AUTHORITY LIBRARY SERVICES 45 words
  8. TRADE
    1. Biggin Hill Airport 219 words
    2. Civil Aviation Authority (New Radar System) 35 words
    3. Departmental Manpower 119 words
    4. Estate Agents 131 words
    5. Postal Telecommunications Equipment Industry 45 words
    6. Car Tyres 131 words
    7. Manufactured Goods (Trade Trends) 51 words
    8. Development of Tourism 297 words
  9. ENERGY
    1. Coal and Oil Stocks 151 words
    2. Use of Waste Heat 120 words
    3. Petrol Prices 123 words
    4. Electricity Prices 256 words
    5. Power Stations (Coal Burn) 150 words
    6. Electricity Supplies (Disconnections) 247 words
    7. Fossil-fuelled Power Stations 145 words
    8. Nuclear Accident Risks (Costs) 64 words
    9. Bristol Channel and Western Approaches (Oil and Gas Sites) 120 words
    10. North Sea (Floating Structures) 780 words
    11. " Alexander Kielland " Inquiry (British Representation) 90 words
    12. Energy Conservation 233 words
  10. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. International Tea Promotion Association 113 words
    2. Sheep Dipping 93 words
    3. Fish (Storage) 221 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Irish Republican Army (American Arms Supplies) 65 words
    2. Paraplegic Games 70 words
    3. Olympic Games 204 words
    4. Central Africa (Meetings with Soviet Leaders) 194 words
    5. International Legislation (Application to United Kingdom) 299 words
  12. INDUSTRY
    1. Departmental Manpower 82 words
    2. Steel Industry Dispute (Financial Payments) 83 words
    3. Regional Industrial Development Boards 77 words
    4. NORTHERN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD 542 words
    5. Energy Conservation 43 words
    6. Postal Telecommunications Equipment 276 words
    7. Automated Small-batch Production Project 142 words
    8. Grimsby 45 words
    9. Tyre Industry 77 words
    10. Fish Processing Plants 122 words
    11. Airbus 128 words
  13. TRANSPORT
    1. Motorways 57 words
    2. Wrexham-Birkenhead Railway Line 134 words
    3. Pelican Crossings 61 words
    4. M40 (Birmingham-Oxford) 82 words
    5. Heavy Goods Vehicles (Mudflaps) 133 words
    6. Ports 48 words
  14. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Unemployed Persons 93 words
    2. Drugs 113 words
    3. Hospital Patients (Travelling Costs) 111 words
    4. Prescriptions 279 words
    5. Health Education Council 131 words
    6. Self-employed Persons 61 words
    7. Communicable Diseases Report 59 words
    8. " Patients First" 71 words
    9. Child Benefit Centre 72 words
    10. Alcoholics (Hostel Accommodation) 270 words
    11. Social Security (No. 2) Bill 99 words
    12. Kidney Machines 145 words
    13. Invalidity Benefit 140 words
    14. Child Benefit 58 words
  15. DEFENCE
    1. Garret Airesearch Turboprop Engines 44 words
    2. Turboprop-powered Aircraft 166 words
    3. Ballistic Missiles (Warheads) 227 words
    4. Tornado Aircraft (Crash) 157 words
  16. SCOTLAND
    1. "Sea Transport to the Scottish Islands " 83 words
    2. Citizens' Arrests 51 words
    3. Disabled Persons (Employment) 180 words
    4. Departmental Manpower 128 words
    5. Local Councillors (Republic of Ireland Citizens) 121 words
    6. Schoolteachers (Strathclyde Region) 134 words
    7. Longmore Hospital (Deaths) 218 words
    8. Hampden Park 143 words
  17. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Select Committee Rooms (Renovation and Furnishing) 209 words
    2. Building and Construction Industries (West Midlands) 57 words
    3. Homelessness 33 words
    4. Private House Building (Land Supply) 224 words
    5. Departmental Manpower 130 words
    6. Construction Industry 180 words
    7. Water Industry 140 words
    8. Land Compensation (Home and Farm Loss Payments) 77 words
    9. Water Authorities 383 words
    10. New Towns (Sale of Houses) 102 words
    11. Water Consultative Council 96 words
    12. Rescue Archaeology 332 words
    13. Housing Mobility 122 words
    14. Multiple-occupation Dwellings (Fire Escape) 155 words
  18. WALES
    1. M4 Motorway 69 words
    2. Tuberculosis 119 words
    3. Newport Borough Council (Rateable Value) 104 words
    4. Dogs (Cyst Disease) 135 words
    5. Council House Sales 209 words
    6. Second Homes 57 words
    7. Jobs 65 words
    8. Employment 514 words
  19. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Gaelic Athletic Association 89 words
    2. Arrests (Statistics) 111 words
    3. Constitutional Conference 105 words
    4. Department of the Environment Roads Service (Northern Division) 131 words
    5. Serious Crimes 48 words
    6. Water Pollution 389 words

Lords Sitting of 21 April 1980

  1. Preamble 23 words
  2. WORK PERMITS 719 words
  3. SHORT-TERM RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES 888 words
  4. CIVIL SERVICE PENSIONS: CONTRIBUTIONS 372 words
  5. PORTUGAL: EEC AND TRADE CONCESSIONS 744 words
  6. DINNER 50 words
  7. CONSULAR FEES BILL 4 words
  8. SOCIAL SECURITY BILL 38,059 words, 3 divisions
  9. LICENSING (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) BILL 10 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 21 April 1980

  1. LEAD: REPORT OF THE LAWTHER WORKING PARTY 128 words
  2. ALCOHOL: IMPLEMENTATION OF INVESTIGATING BODIES' RECOMMENDATIONS 161 words
  3. NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES BOARDS: MEMBERS' SALARIES 185 words
  4. THE JUDICIARY: SALARY SCALES 41 words
  5. ELECTRICITY SUPPLY: MAXIMUM DEMAND 355 words
  6. DAIRY CATTLE AND MILK PRODUCTION 267 words